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Earlier today, the latest version of Ubuntu was released to the public. Version 14.10 — dubbed “Utopic Unicorn” — doesn’t bring much to the table in terms of new features, but it does mark an important anniversary. Ten years ago this week, the very first version of Ubuntu was released, and began the march to a more user-friendly Linux desktop. So, is this release something worth celebrating?

Following the release of Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint 14 Nadia is now available to download. It brings several under-the-hood tweaks, a new software manager, and an overhauled Cinnamon 1.6 desktop environment that makes Mint speedy and user friendly.

In the past few months, Ubuntu has seen some serious drops in popularity. It can be said that Linux distributions rise and fall in what can be seen as a pattern as something new becomes the latest and greatest, but this seems to be sudden and could possibly be due to some recent design changes on Canonical’s part.

In the Linux world, a war has been raging for a couple years. At stake are the hearts and minds of its user base, the combatants the various distributions of Linux itself. For some time, Ubuntu Linux has been the clear leader in the fight, amassing more users than any other — and then it released Unity.

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